I'm a little out of touch as to new films to recommend for your summer viewing, but if you haven't seen an older one called 'The Advocate,' you've missed out. I'm watching for the seventh or eighth time tonight, so it's on my mind.
The Advocate is one of those great films that sadly never found an audience. Renaming the film 'The Hour of the Pig' in an attempt to rerelease it didn't help. :-) But it's a wonderful tale, based on the real life of a lawyer in France who went on to become the most famous jurist of his time. During the period covered by this film, he's a bright, rational man who has become bored with the high life of Paris and 'retires' to the south of France. He thinks that there he can have a quiet life and relax. What, after all, could be so hard about being the public defender of a small village, circa 1450? Well, his first client is a peasant accused of murder, his second is a woman accused of witchcraft. And his third is a pig, accused of murder. Suffice it to say it just gets better from there, creating a film full of wit and great performances. The lawyer is played by the always-great Colin Firth, who interacts with a priest-ahead-of-his-time, played by the equally-reliable Ian Holm. Throw in a couple of nemeses played by the likes of Donald Pleasance and Nicol Williamson, and you've got yourself quite a murder mystery indeed. Babe alert for Shemp -- Amina Annabi. Not to be missed... ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
